Individual Orange Box games hit retail April 9

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Mar 5th 2008 7:15PM

Perhaps you've been burnt by digital distribution in the past, and now refuse to even touch the likes of Steam. Perhaps you found one or more of the games in Valve's critically acclaimed Orange Box to be lacking in a peel. Perhaps you'd like us to stop with the excruciating puns you jerks and report the news already geez.

So, have at it: Valve has confirmed to Joystiq that the individually boxed Orange Box PC games are due to hit physical shelves on April 9th. The separate SKUs, which will be available worldwide, consist of first-person puzzler Portal, caricatured multiplayer romp Team Fortress 2, and a crowbar double-whammy in the form of Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two. Valve has yet to officially announce pricing details, but retailers currently list Portal at $19.99 and the other two packages at $29.99 each. Expect more details soon.

Tags: BreakingNews, Half-Life, Half-Life-2, Half-Life2, HL2, Orange-Box, OrangeBox, PC, Portal, Steam, Team-Fortress-2, TeamFortress2, Valve

Reader Comments (65)

I figure you're paying $50-ish (less nowadays, I think) for 3 titles (Episode 2, Portal, TF2). The others (Half Life 2, Episode 1) are just extras.

Where's the console individual versions? All I want is Portal for my 360!

At least NOW the box art looks like it was DESIGNED instead of photoshopped.

And is Episode 3 releasing on the 360?

I don't know why everyone freaks out over the inclusion of HL2 and EP1. When I bought the orange box, I just steamgifted it to my friend. He was stoked and I think thats worth it.

Well... maybe you complainers don't have friends heh

Portal, while a wonderful and incredibly fun game, is not worth 20$.

I'm sorry, but you fail, because yes. Yes it is.

No, it's really not. It's short and has little to no replayability. Sure there are the advanced chambers, but once you've beaten those they offer nothing more. The challenges are there for the sadists.

There are custom maps but the vast majority of them aren't worth playing through.

Portal is a game that works in the Orange Box and if it was something like 10$ through digital distribution. I'm not going to spend 20$ on a game that took me ~4 hours to complete though.

I think I've played through it five or six times, at least. Then there's the advanced chambers. And the puzzle stuff, but I haven't played it.

Also it's an oddly good spectator game.

Besides, there have been games just as short for twice if not more the price. Honestly I'd pay $20 for the unique gameplay alone, this is stuff you don't get anywhere else.

Really diggin' that there TF2 box art. I might have to pick it up just for that.

I'm just waiting for the complete Half-Life 2 package that includes the three additional episodes.

I'd just buy Portal for 20 bucks and TF2 for 30 bucks... but I would had been able to have spent those 50 bucks on the Orange Box which would had included the extra Half-Life 2.

See the problem?